JUUICHIKETAJIN further queried:
> So "mojibake" is a loanword?
Yes.
>
> What I mean is, the Latin alphabet has two "cases".
> The Japanese kana set has two "??????". What word goes
> in the "??????"?
syllabaries
And I don't think there is any general-purpose English
word for the kind of systematic relationship between
syllabaries that you are looking for here. "Case" is
clearly not right.
And "isomorphic syllabic structure" is probably more of
a mouthful than you are looking for.
Come on, list -- this is the kind of stuff you folks are
real good at. ;-)
Isosyllabicity?
Homosyllogy?
Sylphsameness?
--Ken
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